Savitri Goonesekere

Savitri Goonesekere is is a jurist and academic from Sri Lanka. She was a Professor of Law Emeritus of the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka where she held the posts of Professor of Law, as well as the Vice Chancellor of the University from 1999-2002. She has held fellowships at the School of Oriental and African Studies, U.K. , the Human Rights Programme Harvard Law School USA, and the UNICEF Research Centre in Florence , Italy . Ms. Goonesekere was a member of the UN Committee of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Agains Women (CEDAW) from 1999-2002, and until recently Chairperson of the Asian Development Bank's External Forum on Gender. She is a member of Advisory Board of several regional and international institutions, and has published extensively on Family Law, Human Right Gender and Development and Children Rights. She's well known internationally, nationally, and regionally as an authority on women's and children's human rights and as a renowned feminist scholar who has shaped changes in law and policy both nationally and internationally.

Publications:

“ Child Labour in Sri Lanka : Learning from the Past” (ILO:1993).
“ Children, Law and Justice: A South Asian Perspective” (Sage: 1998).
Editor of, “ Violence, Law, and Women's Rights in South Asia” (Sage:2004).